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Originally Posted by someone123
I don't think this is very accurate. The stadium the Wanderers play in is 7,500 and Moncton's is 8,300.
In Halifax, the municipality is looking at spending over $100M to improve the Wanderers site. The problem is so far they're not looking at CFL standards and there's resistance to relocating any other uses. I think that if the lawn bowling has to go for a useful larger stadium, it should be a no-brainer. The largest obstacle isn't money or public will, it's bureaucracy and scope creep. It would be a mistake to spend over $100M of public dollars and not contribute to something at least along the path of getting a CFL-ready stadium, IMO (like something expandable, even if it doesn't have 25,000 seats today).
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Are these figures not accurate from the
Touchdown Atlantic Wikipedia page:
I understand these figures are for expandable seating configurations in Moncton, but if accurate, it seems Moncton's stadium has a much higher expandable seating capacity than Halifax's.
If Halifax was to build a CFL ready, 20-25k+ stadium, what exactly would be the great risk for the CFL to also grant an expansion franchise to Moncton that would play out of an expanded capacity Croix-Bleue Medavie Stadium for maybe 5-10 years as they seek funding to build a new stadium?
The CFL seemed to recover fine from the
failure of the Ottawa Renegades.
I bet a Moncton CFL team would be a success, even playing out of a less than ideal stadium, and they'd obtain the funding to build a new stadium.
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